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The most recent instance widely reported of a true backup quarterback—one who did not begin the season as the team’s starter—playing and winning the Super Bowl was Nick Foles, who took over for the in...
Three distinct categories of Melania Trump bikini or swimsuit images circulate in media coverage: professional magazine shoots around 2000 (including a January 2000 GQ shoot and Sports Illustrated wor...
Melania Trump built a transatlantic modeling résumé before her 2005 marriage, beginning work at 16, reaching the Look of the Year finals in 1992, and working through Paris and Milan agencies before mo...
Melania Trump worked as a fashion model in Europe and the United States throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and “appeared on the covers of several magazines,” including a noted appearance in the 2000...
Melania Trump’s nude photoshoots from the late 1990s and 2000 were publicly known long before she became First Lady, and they resurfaced as a campaign issue in 2016 and again in later publicity around...
Available reporting around the 2024–2025 seasons shows Marion Local High School (Maria Stein, Ohio) held the nation’s longest active high‑school football winning streak entering 2025, commonly cited a...
Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model who says she briefly dated Jeffrey Epstein, has publicly accused Donald Trump of groping her during a 1993 visit to Trump Tower — an allegation Willi...
Available reporting identifies the resurfaced image as one of Melania Trump’s swimsuit/modeling photos from around 2000 that have circulated from magazine shoots such as British GQ and other editorial...
President Barack Obama did play basketball at the White House, primarily on an outdoor court adapted from the property's tennis facility rather than a newly built indoor gym, and he hosted numerous pi...
A widely shared “gold bathing suit” photo of Melania Trump is being presented as a vintage modeling shot; contemporary coverage identifies it as an old swimsuit/throwback photo from her modeling days ...
A short, verifiable list shows that a small group of NFL quarterbacks who began seasons as backups — or were on the bench earlier in their careers — went on to start and win a Super Bowl: Roger Stauba...
Melania Trump’s pre-marriage commercial activity is dominated by a that began in Slovenia and expanded to Milan, Paris and New York, and later by branded consumer ventures—most visibly a QVC-distribut...
Available reporting in the provided sources identifies a handful of U.S. presidents with clear, documented ties to basketball—most prominently Barack Obama, whose regular White House pickup games and ...
Available reporting and biographical summaries consistently say Melania Knauss (Melanija Knavs) pursued an international modeling career that began in the late 1980s and continued through the 1990s; s...
Melania Trump worked for more than a decade as a professional fashion model before marrying Donald Trump, performing standard industry duties: runway shows, editorial and commercial photo shoots, adve...
Melania Trump obtained permanent residency through an EB-1 “extraordinary ability” category in 2001 after applying in 2000 while working as a model in New York . Reporting and expert commentary agree ...
Melania Knauss built an international modeling résumé in the 1980s–early 2000s that included agency signings in Milan and work in Paris and New York, magazine covers (including Vanity Fair Italia and ...
Contemporaneous press coverage and industry records from 1996–2000 show moved to in 1996 to pursue modeling, worked in on magazine shoots, and appeared in high-profile publications around 1999–2000 in...
shoot — shot by aboard ’s private jet and later republished and widely discussed during political campaigns — both cemented ’s credentials as an international fashion model and became a recurring poli...
Journalists and biographers have constructed ’s 1990s career narrative largely from modeling credits, contemporaneous agency ties, and later recollections in memoirs and unauthorized biographies, port...